The Story of the Hymns and Tunes
by Theron Brown Hezekiah Butterworth
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- THE STORY OF THE HYMNS AND TUNES
- THERON BROWN
- AND
- HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH
- Multae terricolis linguae, coelestibus una.
- Ten thousand, thousand are their tongues, But all their joys are one.
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF PORTRAITS.
- PREFACE.
- INTRODUCTION.
- CHAPTER I.
- HYMNS OF PRAISE AND WORSHIP.
- “TE DEUM LAUDAMUS.”
- THE TUNE.
- “ALL GLORY, LAUD AND HONOR.” Gloria, Laus et Honor.
- THE TUNE.
- “ALL PRAISE TO THEE, ETERNAL LORD.” Gelobet Seist du Jesu Christ.
- THE TUNE.
- THE MAGNIFICAT. [Greek: Megalunei hê psuchê mou ton Kurion.]
- THE DOXOLOGIES.
- THE TUNE.
- “THE LORD DESCENDED FROM ABOVE.”
- THE TUNE.
- TALLIS' EVENING HYMN.
- THE TUNE.
- “THE GOD OF ABRAHAM PRAISE.”
- THE TUNE.
- “O WORSHIP THE KING ALL GLORIOUS ABOVE.”
- THE TUNE.
- “MAJESTIC SWEETNESS SITS ENTHRONED.”
- THE TUNE.
- “ALL HAIL THE POWER OF JESUS' NAME.”
- THE TUNE.
- “AWAKE AND SING THE SONG.”
- THE TUNE.
- “CROWN HIS HEAD WITH ENDLESS BLESSING.”
- THE TUNE.
- “NOW TO THE LORD A NOBLE SONG.”
- THE TUNE.
- “EARLY, MY GOD, WITHOUT DELAY.”
- THE TUNE.
- “SWEET IS THE WORK, MY GOD, MY KING.”
- THE TUNE.
- “COME, WE THAT LOVE THE LORD.”
- THE TUNE.
- “BE THOU EXALTED, O MY GOD.”
- THE TUNE.
- “BEFORE JEHOVAH'S AWFUL THRONE.”
- TUNE—OLD HUNDRED.
- “O FOR A THOUSAND TONGUES TO SING.”
- THE TUNES.
- “LORD WITH GLOWING HEART I'D PRAISE THEE.”
- THE TUNE.
- “HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, LORD GOD ALMIGHTY.”
- THE TUNE.
- “LORD OF ALL BEING, THRONED AFAR.”
- THE TUNE.
- CHAPTER II.
- SOME HYMNS OF GREAT WITNESSES.
- JOHN OF DAMASCUS. [Greek: Erchesthe, ô pistoi, Anastaseôs Hêmera]
- THE TUNE.
- ST. STEPHEN, THE SABAITE.
- KING ROBERT II. Veni, Sancte Spiritus.
- THE TUNE.
- ST. FULBERT. “Chori Cantores Hierusalem Novae.”
- THE TUNE.
- THOMAS OF CELANO.
- THE TUNE.
- THOMAS À KEMPIS.
- MARTIN LUTHER. “Ein Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott.”
- BARTHOLOMEW RINGWALDT. “Great God, What Do I See and Hear?”
- THE TUNE.
- ST. FRANCIS XAVIER. “O Deus, Ego Amo Te.”
- THE TUNE.
- SIR WALTER RALEIGH. “Give Me My Scallop-Shell of Quiet.”
- MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS. “O Domine Deus, Speravi in Te.”
- SAMUEL RUTHERFORD.
- THE TUNE.
- GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS. “Verzage Nicht Du Hauflein Klein.”
- PAUL GERHARDT. “Befiehl Du Deine Wege.”
- THE TUNE.
- LADY HUNTINGDON. “When Thou My Righteous Judge Shalt Come.”
- THE TUNE.
- ZINZENDORF. “Jesus, Thy Blood and Righteousness.”
- THE TUNE.
- ROBERT SEAGRAVE. “Rise, My Soul, and Stretch Thy Wings.”
- THE TUNE.
- SIR JOHN BOWRING. “In the Cross of Christ I Glory.”
- THE TUNE.
- CHAPTER III.
- HYMNS OF CHRISTIAN DEVOTION AND EXPERIENCE.
- “JESU DULCIS MEMORIA.” “Jesus the Very Thought of Thee.”
- THE TUNE.
- “GOD CALLING YET! SHALL I NOT HEAR?”
- THE TUNE.
- “MY GOD, HOW ENDLESS IS THY LOVE.”
- “I'M NOT ASHAMED TO OWN MY LORD.”
- “IS THIS THE KIND RETURN?”
- “WHEN I SURVEY THE WONDROUS CROSS.”
- THE TUNE.
- “LOVE DIVINE, ALL LOVES EXCELLING.”
- “WHEN ALL THY MERCIES, O MY GOD.”
- THE TUNE.
- “JESUS, I LOVE THY CHARMING NAME.”
- THE TUNE.
- “LO, ON A NARROW NECK OF LAND.”
- THE TUNE.
- “COME YE SINNERS POOR AND NEEDY.”
- THE TUNE.
- “O HAPPY SAINTS WHO DWELL IN LIGHT.”
- THE TUNE.
- “THOU DEAR REDEEMER, DYING LAMB.”
- THE TUNE.
- “WHILE THEE I SEEK, PROTECTING POWER.”
- THE TUNE.
- “JESUS MY ALL TO HEAVEN IS GONE.”
- “SWEET THE MOMENTS, RICH IN BLESSING.”
- “O FOR A CLOSER WALK WITH GOD.”
- THE TUNE.
- “WHAT VARIOUS HINDRANCES WE MEET.”
- “MY GRACIOUS REDEEMER I LOVE.”
- “BLEST BE THE TIE THAT BINDS.”
- “I LOVE THY KINGDOM, LORD.”
- “MID SCENES OF CONFUSION.”
- THE TUNE.
- “O, COULD I SPEAK THE MATCHLESS WORTH.”
- THE TUNE.
- “ROCK OF AGES CLEFT FOR ME.”
- TOPLADY.
- GLADSTONE.
- THE TUNE.
- “MY SOUL BE ON THY GUARD”
- THE TUNE.
- “PEOPLE OF THE LIVING GOD.”
- THE TUNE.
- “TO LEAVE MY DEAR FRIENDS.”
- “SAVIOUR, THY DYING LOVE.”
- THE TUNE.
- “IN SOME WAY OR OTHER.”
- THE TUNE.
- “NEARER, MY GOD, TO THEE.”
- THE TUNE.
- “I NEED THEE EVERY HOUR.”
- “I GAVE MY LIFE FOR THEE.”
- THE TUNE.
- “JESUS KEEP ME NEAR THE CROSS.”
- “I WOULD NOT LIVE ALWAY.”
- THE TUNE.
- “SUN OF MY SOUL, MY SAVIOUR DEAR.”
- THE TUNE.
- “DID CHRIST O'ER SINNERS WEEP?”
- THE TUNE.
- “MY JESUS, I LOVE THEE.”
- CHAPTER IV.
- MISSIONARY HYMNS.
- “JESUS SHALL REIGN WHERE'ER THE SUN.”
- THE TUNE.
- “JOY TO THE WORLD! THE LORD IS COME!”
- “O'ER THE GLOOMY HILLS OF DARKNESS.” Dros y brinian tywyl niwliog.
- THE TUNE.
- “HASTEN, LORD, THE GLORIOUS TIME.”
- “LET PARTY NAMES NO MORE.”
- “WATCHMAN, TELL US OF THE NIGHT.”
- “YE CHRISTIAN HERALDS, GO PROCLAIM.”
- THE TUNE
- “ON THE MOUNTAIN TOP APPEARING.”
- THE TUNE.
- “YE CHRISTIAN HEROES, WAKE TO GLORY.”
- “HAIL TO THE LORD'S ANOINTED.”
- THE TUNE.
- “FROM GREENLAND'S ICY MOUNTAINS.”
- THE TUNE.
- “THE MORNING LIGHT IS BREAKING.”
- THE TUNE.
- “IF I WERE A VOICE, A PERSUASIVE VOICE.”
- “SPEED AWAY! SPEED AWAY!”
- “ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS!”
- THE TUNE.
- “O CHURCH ARISE AND SING”
- “THE BANNER OF IMMANUEL!”
- CHAPTER V.
- HYMNS OF SUFFERING AND TRUST.
- “MY LORD, HOW FULL OF SWEET CONTENT.”
- THE TUNE.
- “NO CHANGE IN TIME SHALL EVER SHOCK.”
- THE TUNE.
- “WHY DO WE MOURN DEPARTED FRIENDS?”
- “FATHER, WHATE'ER OF EARTHLY BLISS.”
- THE TUNE.
- “GUIDE ME, O THOU GREAT JEHOVAH.”
- THE TUNE.
- “PEACE, TROUBLED SOUL”
- THE TUNE.
- “BEGONE UNBELIEF, MY SAVIOUR IS NEAR.”
- THE TUNE
- “HOW FIRM A FOUNDATION.”
- THE TUNE.
- “WHILE THEE I SEEK, PROTECTING POWER.”
- THE TUNES.
- “COME UNTO ME.”
- JOHN WESLEY'S HYMN.
- THE TUNE.
- “WHEN GATHERING CLOUDS AROUND I VIEW.”
- THE TUNE.
- “JUST AS I AM, WITHOUT ONE PLEA.”
- “MY HOPE IS BUILT ON NOTHING LESS.”
- “ABIDE WITH ME! FAST FALLS THE EVENTIDE.”
- THE TUNE
- “COME, YE DISCONSOLATE.”
- THE TUNE.
- “JESUS, I MY CROSS HAVE TAKEN.”
- “FROM EVERY STORMY WIND THAT BLOWS.”
- “CHILD OF SIN AND SORROW.”
- “LEAD, KINDLY LIGHT.”
- THE TUNE.
- “I HEARD THE VOICE OF JESUS SAY.”
- THE TUNE.
- “I LOVE TO STEAL AWHILE AWAY.”
- THE TUNE.
- “THERE'S A WIDENESS IN GOD'S MERCY.”
- THE TUNE.
- “HE LEADETH ME! OH, BLESSED THOUGHT.”
- THE TUNE.
- CHAPTER VI.
- CHRISTIAN BALLADS.
- “RISE, CROWNED WITH LIGHT.”
- THE TUNE.
- “OH, WHY SHOULD THE SPIRIT?”
- “WHEN ISRAEL OF THE LORD BELOVED.”
- “WE SAT DOWN AND WEPT BY THE WATERS.”
- “AS DOWN IN THE SUNLESS.”
- “THE TURF SHALL BE MY FRAGRANT SHRINE”
- “O THOU WHO DRY'ST THE MOURNER'S TEAR”
- “THE BIRD LET LOOSE IN EASTERN SKIES”
- “THOU ART, O GOD, THE LIFE AND LIGHT.”
- “MOURNFULLY, TENDERLY, BEAR ON THE DEAD.”
- THE TUNE.
- “TELL ME NOT IN MOURNFUL NUMBERS.”
- “BUILD THEE MORE NOBLE MANSIONS.”
- WHITTIER'S SERVICE SONG.
- THE TUNE.
- “THE BIRD WITH THE BROKEN PINION.”
- UNDER THE PALMS.
- “IF YOU CANNOT ON THE OCEAN.”
- THE TUNE.
- “TOO LATE! TOO LATE! YE CANNOT ENTER NOW.”
- “OH, GALILEE, SWEET GALILEE.”
- THE TUNE.
- CHAPTER VII.
- OLD REVIVAL HYMNS.
- “AWAKED BY SINAI'S AWFUL SOUND.”
- “WHERE NOW ARE THE HEBREW CHILDREN?”
- “THE EDEN OF LOVE.”
- “O CANA-AN, BRIGHT CANA-AN”
- “A CHARGE TO KEEP I HAVE.”
- THE TUNE.
- “CHRISTIANS, IF YOUR HEARTS ARE WARM.”
- “AWAKE, MY SOUL, TO JOYFUL LAYS.”
- THE TUNE,
- “THE LORD INTO HIS GARDEN COMES.”
- “THE CHARIOT! THE CHARIOT!”
- “COME, MY BRETHREN.”
- “BRETHREN, WHILE WE SOJOURN HERE.”
- “HAPPY DAY.”
- “COME, HOLY SPIRIT, HEAVENLY DOVE.” —Watts.
- “COME, THOU FOUNT OF EVERY BLESSING.”
- “A POOR WAYFARING MAN OF GRIEF,”
- “WHEN FOR ETERNAL WORLDS I STEER.”
- “I'M A PILGRIM, AND I'M A STRANGER.”
- “JOYFULLY, JOYFULLY ONWARD I MOVE.”
- THE TUNE.
- “TIS THE OLD SHIP OF ZION, HALLELUJAH!”
- “MY BROTHER, I WISH YOU WELL.”
- CHAPTER VIII.
- SUNDAY-SCHOOL HYMNS.
- SHEPHERD OF TENDER YOUTH. [Greek: Stomion pôlôn adaôn]
- “HOW HAPPY IS THE CHILD WHO HEARS.”
- THE TUNE.
- “O DO NOT BE DISCOURAGED.”
- THE TUNE.
- “LITTLE TRAVELLERS ZIONWARD”
- “I'M BUT A STRANGER HERE.”
- THE TUNE.
- “DEAR JESUS, EVER AT MY SIDE.”
- THE TUNE.
- “TIS RELIGION THAT CAN GIVE.”
- “THERE IS A HAPPY LAND FAR, FAR AWAY”
- THE TUNE.
- “I HAVE A FATHER IN THE PROMISED LAND.”
- “I THINK WHEN I READ THAT SWEET STORY”
- THE TUNE.
- “WE SPEAK OF THE REALMS OF THE BLEST.”
- THE TUNE.
- “ONLY REMEMBERED.”
- THE TUNE.
- “SAVIOUR, LIKE A SHEPHERD LEAD US.”
- “YIELD NOT TO TEMPTATION”
- “THERE ARE LONELY HEARTS TO CHERISH.”
- THE TUNE.
- “JESUS THE WATER OF LIFE WILL GIVE.”
- THE TUNE.
- “WHEN HE COMETH, WHEN HE COMETH.”
- THE TUNE.
- “SCATTER SEEDS OF KINDNESS.”
- “BY COOL SILOAM'S SHADY RILL.”
- THE TUNE.
- “I AM SO GLAD”
- CHAPTER IX.
- PATRIOTIC HYMNS.
- ULTIMA THULE.
- “THE BREAKING WAVES DASHED HIGH.”
- THE TUNE.
- “WESTWARD THE COURSE OF EMPIRE.”
- “SOUND THE LOUD TIMBREL.”
- THE TUNE.
- “THE HARP THAT ONCE THROUGH TARA'S HALLS.”
- THE MARSEILLAISE HYMN.
- ODE ON SCIENCE.
- THE TUNE
- “HAIL COLUMBIA.”
- OLD “CHESTER.”
- THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER.
- “STAND! THE GROUND'S YOUR OWN, MY BRAVES.”
- “MY COUNTRY, 'TIS OF THEE.”
- THE TUNE.
- “BY THE RUDE BRIDGE.”
- BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC.
- THE TUNE.
- KELLER'S AMERICAN HYMN.
- “GOD BLESS OUR NATIVE LAND.”
- “THOU, TOO, SAIL ON, O SHIP OF STATE,”
- “GOD OF OUR FATHERS, KNOWN OF OLD.”
- THE TUNE.
- CHAPTER X.
- SAILORS' HYMNS.
- “FIERCE WAS THE WILD BILLOW.” [Greek: Zopheras trikumias]
- THE TUNE.
- “AVE, MARIS STELLA.”
- TUNES
- “AVE, SANCTISSIMA!”
- “JESUS, LOVER OF MY SOUL.”
- THE TUNE.
- “WHEN MARSHALLED ON THE NIGHTLY PLAIN.”
- THE TUNE.
- “LAND AHEAD!”
- “ETERNAL FATHER, STRONG TO SAVE.”
- THE TUNE.
- “THE OCEAN HATH NO DANGER.”
- “FIERCE RAGED THE TEMPEST ON THE DEEP.”
- “PULL FOR THE SHORE.”
- “JESUS, SAVIOUR, PILOT ME.”
- THE TUNE.
- “THROW OUT THE LIFE-LINE.”
- CHAPTER XI.
- HYMNS OF WALES.
- “ONWARD RIDE IN TRIUMPH, JESUS,” Marchog, Jesu, yn llwyddiannus,
- “IN EDEN—O THE MEMORY!” Yn Eden cofiaf hyny byth!
- “HERE BEHOLD THE TENT OF MEETING.” Dyma Babell y cyfarfod.
- “HOW SWEET THE COVENANT TO REMEMBER.” Bydd melus gofio y cyfammod.
- “DWY ADEN COLOMEN PE CAWN.”
- “CAELBOD YN FORSEC DAN YR IAN.”
- “DYMA GARIAD FEL Y MOROEDD, TOSTURIASTHAN FEL Y LLI.”
- “RHYFEDDODAU DYDD YR ADGYFODIDD.”
- “O FRYNAU CAERSALEM CEIR GIVELED.”
- “DYMA GEIDWAD I R COLLEDIG.”
- “O SANCTEIDDIA F'ENAID ARGLWYDD.”
- CHAPTER XII.
- FIELD HYMNS.
- “COME HITHER ALL YE WEARY SOULS,”
- “AND WILL THE JUDGE DESCEND?”
- “HASTEN SINNER, TO BE WISE”
- “MUST JESUS BEAR THE CROSS ALONE?”
- THE TUNE.
- “AWAKE MY SOUL, STRETCH EVERY NERVE!”
- THE TUNE.
- “THERE IS A GREEN HILL FAR AWAY.”
- THE TUNES.
- “REJOICE AND BE GLAD!”
- THE TUNE.
- “COME, SINNER, COME.”
- “ONE MORE DAY'S WORK FOR JESUS.”
- THE TUNE
- THE GOSPEL HYMNS.
- “HALLELUJAH! 'TIS DONE.”
- THE NINETY AND NINE.
- “HOLD THE FORT!”
- “RESCUE THE PERISHING.”
- “WHAT A FRIEND WE HAVE IN JESUS.”
- THE TUNE.
- “I HEAR THE SAVIOUR SAY.”
- THE TUNE.
- “TELL ME THE OLD, OLD STORY.”
- THE TUNE.
- THE PRODIGAL CHILD.
- THE TUNE
- “LET THE LOWER LIGHTS BE BURNING!”
- “SWEET HOUR OF PRAYER.”
- “O BLISS OF THE PURIFIED! BLISS OF THE FREE!”
- THE TUNE.
- “WHAT SHALL THE HARVEST BE?”
- THE TUNE,
- “O THINK OF THE HOME OVER THERE.”
- THE TUNE.
- “WHEN JESUS COMES.”
- “TO THE WORK, TO THE WORK.”
- “O WHERE ARE THE REAPERS?”
- THE TUNE.
- “IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL.”
- “WAITING AND WATCHING FOR ME.”
- THE TUNE.
- “HE WILL HIDE ME.” (Isa. 49:2.)
- THE TUNE.
- “REVIVE THY WORK, O LORD.” (Heb. 3:2.)
- THE TUNE.
- “WHERE IS MY WANDERING BOY TO-NIGHT?”
- “ETERNITY.”
- TRIUMPH BY AND BY.
- THE TUNE,
- “NOT HALF HAS EVER BEEN TOLD”
- THE TUNE.
- “COME.”
- THE TUNE,
- “ALMOST PERSUADED.”
- “MY AIN COUNTREE.”
- THE TUNE
- CHAPTER XIII.
- HYMNS, FESTIVAL AND OCCASIONAL.
- CHRISTMAS.
- “ADESTE FIDELES.”
- MILTON'S HYMN TO THE NATIVITY.
- THE TUNE.
- “HARK! THE HERALD ANGELS SING.”
- THE TUNE.
- “JOY TO THE WORLD, THE LORD IS COME!”
- “HARK! WHAT MEAN THOSE HOLY VOICES?”
- THE TUNE.
- “WHILE SHEPHERDS WATCHED THEIR FLOCKS.”
- THE TUNE.
- “IT CAME UPON THE MIDNIGHT CLEAR.”
- THE TUNE.
- “O LITTLE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM!”
- THE TUNE.
- PALM SUNDAY.
- FAURE'S “PALM BRANCHES.”
- EASTER.
- “CHRIST THE LORD IS RISEN TODAY”
- AN ANTHEM FOR EASTER.
- “YES, THE REDEEMER ROSE.”
- “O SHORT WAS HIS SLUMBER.”
- THANKSGIVING.
- “DIE FELDER WIR PFLÜGEN UND STREUEN.”
- “WITH SONGS AND HONORS SOUNDING LOUD.”
- THE TUNE,
- “HARVEST HOME.”
- “THE GOD OF HARVEST PRAISE.”
- MORNING.
- “STILL, STILL WITH THEE.”
- THE TUNES.
- EVENING HYMNS.
- THE TUNE.
- DEDICATION.
- “CHRIST IS OUR CORNER-STONE.”
- THE TUNE.
- “OH LORD OF HOSTS WHOSE GLORY FILLS THE BOUNDS OF THE ETERNAL HILLS.”
- THE TUNE.
- “DAUGHTER OF ZION, FROM THE DUST.”
- THE SABBATH.
- THE TUNE.
- COMMUNION.
- “BREAD OF HEAVEN, ON THEE WE FEED.”
- THE TUNE.
- “HERE, O MY LORD, I SEE THEE FACE TO FACE.”
- THE TUNE.
- “O THOU MY SOUL, FORGET NO MORE.”
- THE TUNE.
- NEW YEAR.
- “GREAT GOD, WE SING THAT MIGHTY HAND.”
- PARTING.
- “GOD BE WITH YOU TILL WE MEET AGAIN.”
- THE TUNE.
- FUNERALS.
- “MY JESUS, AS THOU WILT.” (Mein Jesu, wie du willst.)
- THE TUNE.
- “I CANNOT ALWAYS TRACE THE WAY.”
- WEDDING.
- FRUITION DAY.
- “LO! HE COMES WITH CLOUDS DESCENDING.”
- THE TUNES.
- “LO! WHAT A GLORIOUS SIGHT APPEARS.”
- THE TUNES.
- CHAPTER XIV.
- HYMNS OF HOPE AND CONSOLATION.
- “JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN.” Urbs Sion Aurea.
- THE TUNE.
- “WHY SHOULD WE START AND FEAR TO DIE?”
- THE TUNE.
- “WHEN I CAN READ MY TITLE CLEAR.”
- “VITAL SPARK OF HEAVENLY FLAME.”
- THE TUNE.
- “YOUR HARPS, YE TREMBLING SAINTS.”
- THE TUNE.
- “YE GOLDEN LAMPS OF HEAVEN, FAREWELL.”
- THE TUNE.
- “TRIUMPHANT ZION, LIFT THY HEAD.”
- “SHRINKING FROM THE COLD HAND OF DEATH.”
- “FOREVER WITH THE LORD.”
- THE TUNES.
- “HARK! HARK, MY SOUL!”
- THE TUNES.
- “BEYOND THE SMILING AND THE WEEPING.”
- THE TUNES.
- “WE SHALL MEET BEYOND THE RIVER.”
- “ONE SWEETLY SOLEMN THOUGHT.”
- THE TUNE.
- “I WILL SING YOU A SONG OF THAT BEAUTIFUL LAND.”
- “THERE'S A LAND THAT IS FAIRER THAN DAY.”
- “SUNSET AND EVENING STAR.”
- THE TUNE.
- “SAFE IN THE ARMS OF JESUS.”
- THE TUNE.
- INDEX OF NAMES.
- INDEX OF TUNES.
- INDEX OF HYMNS.622 / 556
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